On 11 September the Baltic Exchange, in partnership with TradeWinds, will be presenting the International Shipbroking Forum, London, at the Doubletree By Hilton, Tower of London Hotel. The event, which takes place during London International Shipping Week, will incorporate three sessions. These sessions are as follows: 

Panel One  2-3pm
Relevant, reliable and tradable: Indices for today’s shipping markets

Panel members include Emanuel (Manu) Ravano, CEO, Ifchor; John Banaszkiewicz, Managing Director, FIS, Chris Reilly, Managing Director, BRS Futures and Ben Gibson, Head of LNG Derivatives, Affinity Shipping. Mark Jackson, CEO, Baltic Exchange, will moderate the discussion. 

Panel Two 3.10-4.10pm
Shipbroking and Digitalisation – Disruption, Diversification and Differentiation

Julian Bray, Editor-in-Chief, TradeWinds, is joined by Mark O’Neil, President, Columbia Shipmanagement Ltd; Ami Daniel, CEO, Windward; Martin Hjelle, Head of Technology, Western Bulk; Viral Shah, Head of Freight Trading, RWE Supply and Trading; Nico Borkmann, Director and Executive Board Member, Braemar ACM Shipbroking.  

Panel Three 4.30-5.30pm
Regulation & Shipping – what’s come/coming over the horizon?

Stefan Albertijn, Chairman, Baltic Index Council will be joined by Duncan Dunn, Senior Director, SSY Futures Ltd; Brian Nixon, Managing Director, Lavinia Bulk Ltd and Jonathan Herbst, Global Head of Financial Services Regulation, Norton Rose Fullbright LLP. 

Registration for the event commences from 1pm, with opening remarks taking place at 1.30pm. Short breaks will be held between sessions, with a networking drinks reception on the Savage Garden rooftop immediately following the forum.  

For more information and for registration enquiries, click here.